Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo ... who were shipped across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa. The transatlantic slave trade became an extremely lucrative international enterprise ...

Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, was built on the labor of African and indigenous slaves ... once at the center of Portugal's slave trade. During his visit, he sparked outrage in the academic ...

1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas. It began with the Portuguese, who went to West Africa in ...

In 1624, the kingdom of Ndongo in West Central Africa ... on Portuguese plantations escape. Soldiers enslaved by the Portuguese abscond. Njinga blocks roads, disrupting Portuguese slave markets.

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

The Dutch had been involved with the African slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier. Soon after gaining control of ...

Notably, Portugal played a pivotal role in the African slave trade, with Portuguese ships transporting millions of Africans across the Atlantic to be sold into bondage. This dark chapter in ...

Created by Batoto Yetu Portugal, an organisation that promotes African culture and heritage ... Its role as a slave-trading hub has long been overshadowed by the nation’s rich cultural and ...

Portuguese explorers aimed to spread Catholicism in Africa, colonize both people and ... who would be sold into the transatlantic slave trade. This arrangement provided a model that other European ...

The Portuguese schooner Arrogante was captured in late ... with Europeans and Africans were probed and queried. Bailey, Anne C., 2005. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence ...

Initially, European trade with Africa did not specialise in enslaved ... Enslaved Africans being transported to a Portuguese slave ship. Millions of Africans enslaved and held in slave fortresses ...